Oral history interview with Jonas Mekas
Extent and Medium
2 digital files, MPEG-4
Creator(s)
- Ina Navazelskis
Biographical History
Ina Navazelskis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Jonas Mekas on June 29, 2018 and July 1, 2018 in Brooklyn, NY.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Jonas Mekas
- Ina Navazelskis
- Mekas, Jonas.
Subjects
- Anti-fascist movements--Lithuania.
- Propaganda, Anti-Soviet.
- Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Concentration camp escapes.
- New York (N.Y.)
- Semeniškiai (Biržai, Lithuania)
- Refugee camps.
- Elmshorn (Germany)
- Biržai (Lithuania)
- Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Protestants--Lithuania.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Lithuania.
- Forced labor.
- Authors.
- Poets.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Personal narratives.
- Anti-Nazi movement.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground literature--Lithuania.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Lithuanian.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Lithuania.
- Brothers.
Genre
- Oral History
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